parsimonious
英 [ˌpɑːsɪˈməʊniəs]
美 [ˌpɑːrsɪˈmoʊniəs]
adj. 悭吝的; 吝啬的; 小气的
BNC.33566 / COCA.26783
牛津词典
adj.
- 悭吝的；吝啬的；小气的
extremely unwilling to spend money
柯林斯词典
- 小气的；吝啬的
Someone who isparsimoniousis very unwilling to spend money.
英英释义
adj
- excessively unwilling to spend
- parsimonious thrift relieved by few generous impulses
- lived in a most penurious manner--denying himself every indulgence
双语例句
- By contrast, the Ministry of defense has been positively parsimonious, with just$ 124000-including expenditure on hardware and support costs-going on its site last year.
相比之下，国防部就显得特小气，只花了124000英镑，包括硬件和去年一年的维护费用。 - General manager Uli Hoeness is very risk-averse and strangely parsimonious in the transfer-market.
赫胖非常害怕风险，在转会市场上异乎寻常的吝啬。 - Used in this manner, the feature-based approach is probably the most parsimonious requirements gathering process.
以这种方式使用，基于功能特性的方法很可能是最节约的需求收集过程。 - ( 1992) proposed a method for forecasting future mortality. Several advantages are claimed: a parsimonious demographic model is combined with statistical time-series methods, the method involves no subjective 'judgements'.
在1992年提出了一种预测人口死亡率的新方法，该方法的优点在于它融合了统计学的时间序列和人口学模型，减少了主观因素对预测结果的影响。 - The appropriations committee, suddenly and ill-advisedly parsimonious, cut funds for assistance to the disadvantaged.
拨款委员会突然地和不明智地节俭地裁减对生活水平低的人的援助。 - China is parsimonious with foreign ownership of A-shares, ruling out the option of swapping hard-currency shares for renminbi-denominated stock.
中国对外资持有a股颇为吝啬，因此排除了用硬通货计价股票交换人民币计价股票的选择。 - Adulterating the very wine with which she's feasting me and her other lifelong fellows, she embodied the definition of being parsimonious. ( UTOYXC)
在宴请我和她的挚友们的酒中加水，她真把小气和吝啬表现得淋漓尽致。 - At home he was churlish, parsimonious and cruel to his daughter.
在家里他对他那些女儿粗暴无礼且残忍。 - German visitors are more parsimonious their stays in London cost on average 77 a night.
德国游客在这方面相对节俭，他们在伦敦每晚住宿的平均消费为77英镑。 - This is a shame because the basic conceit of the book is parsimonious and clever.
这点真是可惜，因为这本书本身的基本想法还是比较节制和巧妙的。